The Call of Abram

12 The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household^(A) to the land^(B) I will show you.^(C)

⁴ So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot^(I) went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old^(J) when he set out from Harran.^{(K) 5} He took his wife Sarai,^(L) his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated^(M) and the people^(N) they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan,^(O) and they arrived there.

⁶ Abram traveled through the land^(P) as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh^(Q) at Shechem.^(R) At that time the Canaanites^(S) were in the land.

¹² As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep,^(A) and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him. ¹³ Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years^(B) your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved^(C) and mistreated there. ¹⁴ But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out^(D) with great possessions.^{(E) 15} You, however, will go to your ancestors^(F) in peace and be buried at a good old age.^{(G) 16} In the fourth generation^(H) your descendants will come back here,^(I) for the sin of the Amorites^(J) has not yet reached its full measure.”

¹⁷ When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch^(K) appeared and passed between the pieces.^{(L) 18} On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram^(M) and said, “To your descendants I give this land,^(N) from the Wadi^[a] of Egypt^(O) to the great river, the Euphrates^(P)— ¹⁹ the land of the Kenites,^(Q) Kenizzites, Kadmonites, ²⁰ Hittites,^(R) Perizzites,^(S) Rephaites,^{(T) 21} Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.”^(U)